rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop

Features

• Container Desktop Managers - Provides a graphical desktop interface for running and controlling containerized workloads on a local machine.
• Container and Kubernetes GUIs - Provides a comprehensive graphical interface for managing both local container engines and Kubernetes clusters.
• Container Runtime Interfaces - Implements a pluggable interface allowing users to switch between container runtimes like containerd and Docker.
• Container Runtime Managers - Provides a pluggable interface to switch between different container runtimes like containerd and Docker.
• Local Kubernetes Clusters - Automatically deploys and configures local Kubernetes distributions using pre-defined scripts and templates.
• Infrastructure Provisioning Templates - Uses pre-defined configuration templates to automate the deployment of local Kubernetes distributions.
• Cross-Platform Applications - Provides a unified installer and application shell that runs consistently across Windows and macOS.
• Command-Line Interface Controllers - Offers a dedicated terminal interface to execute management tasks and configuration changes.
• Containerized Application Management - Allows developers to deploy and manage containerized applications locally to verify behavior before production.
• CLI Control Interfaces - Provides a command-line interface to send administrative instructions to the background management daemon.
• Cross-Platform GUI Wrappers - Encapsulates platform-specific binaries and scripts into a unified desktop application shell for Windows and macOS.
• Virtual Machines - Isolates the Linux-based container engine and Kubernetes cluster from the host using a lightweight virtual machine.
• Virtualization - Listed in the “Virtualization” section of the Awesome Mac awesome list.
• Virtualization and Containers - Desktop application for container and Kubernetes management.

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